lady expressed surprise, and said, "Why, boys, ar all these your treasures?" Arthur, who was about eight years of age, replied "No, ma'am, these are not our treasures: these ar our playthings, but our treasures are not here. "Where are they?" said the lady. "In heaven, he replied. "What treasures have you in heaven! she asked. Arthur replied, with a sweet smile, " harp and a crown."-Child's Paper. THE MISSIONARY SHIP. I SEE the ships upon the sea, As white upon the waters blue, And men are glad the ships to watch, But I should like to look upon With Christ our Saviour's messengers, With holy books, that they may read For such a ship, I think, must be EARLY DAYS. JUNE, 1856. LINES WRITTEN IN THE WILDERNESS OF SINAI. BY PROFESSOR UPHAM. I MARK'D the bright, the silver star, Its heavenly radiance seem'd to say,- I saw thee-and at once I knew, Star of the desert! in my heart, That thou didst shine, the emblem true There is a Beam to light the mind; Star of my heart! that long hast shone NEWARK PRIORY, SURREY. ABOUT a mile beyond Woking are the remains Newark Priory, delightfully situated in a mead on the left bank of the river. Bishop Tanner s that at Aldbury, afterwards called Newark or N Place, in the time of King Richard I., or bef Ruald de Calver, and Beatrix de Sandes, his w built a church of Black Canons to the honour of Virgin Mary and St. Thomas of Canterbury (rat an odd association, by the way). authentic known of its history. that the Monks liked good living and that their pleasures were preferred to t devotional exercises. There is noth Tradition rel better than fast This, like the other places miscalled religi establishments, was broken up by Henry the Eig This Monarch granted the site of Newark Pri with most of the adjoining property, to Sir Anth Browne. It was undoubtedly a fine structure, is of the early pointed style of architecture. Iti a very dilapidated condition, nearly every trac ornament being gone. The walls are about t feet thick, and are formed, like most similar edi in this county and in Sussex, of flint and rul |